Population control leads to human rights abuse.

Washington -- A U.S. State Department report issued in 2003 has listed coercive birth control and forced abortions among global human-rights-abuse practices. China's one-child policy, which also results often in the infanticide of unwanted babies--mostly girls--is by now well known. Needless to say, forced infanticide also involves violence against women.

The even more repressive regime in the neighbouring communist state of North Korea has resulted in many people crossing the border to escape to China. The Chinese government has been housing many of these defectors in prison camps near the border prior to deporting them. The U.S. State Department document reports that pregnant women in the camps have been forced to undergo abortions or beaten until they miscarry. Prompt return to their homeland would not have saved their babies. North Korea has itself a strict policy forbidding live births in its prisons. Any babies who somehow escape abortion are killed at birth.

Having ascertained that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is involved in China's population policies, the Bush administration cut off funding to this agency in 2002. European Union countries, however, upped their contributions to counter the American reduction. Pro-lifers have correspondingly criticized the E.U. One British organization has advised the E.U. to withdraw their support of UNFPA or be charged with complicity in crimes against humanity (C-Fam).